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A very popular desktop email program is Outlook 2010. It will allow you to configure all your email accounts to let you read and send mail from your desktop. This tutorial is going to show you how to setup an Email Account in Outlook 2010.
Now, we have our account, and we are going to open the Outlook 2010 program on our desktop. Once the program opens, you will see a top menu bar. Select File > Info > Add Account.
The Auto Account Setup window should now appear. Fill in the following fields:
- Your Name: Enter your name as you would like it to appear in the FROM field of Outgoing emails.
- E-mail Address: Enter your full email address.
- Password: Enter your email account password (if you require your password please email support@tomahawk.ca).
- **Important** Select Manually configure server settings or additonal server types > Next.
- Select Internet E-Mail > Next.
- Account Type: POP3 or IMAP. Not sure which one? See this article.
- Incoming Mail Server: mail.tomahawk.ca
- Outgoing Mail Server: mail.tomahawk.ca
- User Name: Enter the username we sent you. Usually it is the same as your email address, but not always.
- Remeber Password: Leave this box checked.
- Require Login using Secure Password Authentication: Leave this box unchecked.
Now click the More Settings tab. This will open a Internet E-Mail Settings window.
- Click on the Outgoing Server tab.
- Check the box in front of the statement "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication. *Note: SMTP Authentication means that Outlook will logon to your mail server when sending email as well as when receiving to make sure that you are the only one that can send email from your account.
- Select either use same settings as incoming mail server or logon to incoming mail server before sending mail.
- Now select the advanced tab.
- See this article for available port numbers. *Note: The default settings should work, however some internet service providers block the default SMTP port 25. If you're unable to send email but can receive it, this is most likely the case. Try changing SMTP port 25 to 366.
- Now click OK and Finish to complete the setup Wizard.
Please note the test account settings function may fail even if the account is working correctly. If this is the case you should be able to skip the test.
This takes you back to the main page of Outlook 2010. You should now be ready to start sending and receiving emails.
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